Attachment for grain-drills.



M. COPELAND.

ATTACHMENT FOR GRAIN DRILLS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.'13, 1911.

1,064,61 6., Patented June 10, 1913.

MERRITT COPELAND, or s'r. PAUL, INDIANA.

ATTACHMENT FOR GRA N-purists.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 13, 1 911. SerialNo. 660,001.

To all whom, it may concern:

.130. it known that I, Mnimi'rr COPELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Decatur and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for GrainDril1s, of which the following is a specification. I

My said invention consists in an attachment for grain drills, especially of that type known as five-row drills, comprising a tln'ee-cornered frame supported at its front end on a single wheel and carrying the drill mechanism on the wide rear portion thereof, said invention having for its purpose steadying such a drill laterally in operation and at the same time provide means for turning aside the stalks of corn,

as when the drillis used for drilling grain between the rows in fields of partly grown corn, all as will be hereinafter more fully.

parts are; of a form and construction in common use, or may be of any other appropriate form or construction, and require no special description, being shown merely to illustrate my invention in operative form.

The steadying device comprises runners a bent ofa form substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 with a foot, or part from w to z in Fig.4, adapted to run upon the ground. Their front ends are secured by a bolt 10 tothe front end of the drill frame, and their rear ends are secured by a bolt 11 to the outside of the hangers 12 on which the outside disks B are journaled. The extreme rear ends of said runners are bent upward, and have a series ofperforations' 13 in their vertical portions for the bolts 11, by means of which the horizontal portions which rest upon the ground may be adjusted relative to the drill frame and disks.

Curved stalk fenders c are preferably attached to the bars, or runners, in a position where their lower' points will be in close proximity with the ground and their forwardedges will meet and turn the corn stalks from under the disks.

A fender b as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1 and by whole lines in Fig. 4, is also preferably attached to each runner a at its lower edge and covers the space between said runner and the outer bar of the grain drill frame, thus preventing stalks from interfering with the work of the drill. Other bars 15 preferably run from the bolts 11 and are attached by bolts 16 to an intermediate point on the grain drill frame, and serve as supports for the fenders, or shields, b, and also to strengthen and brace the structure.

I In operation the runners are attached as shown in the drawings, the height being adjusted as may be desired, in relation to the disks, through the medium of the series of perforations 13, as will be readily understood. By letting said runners down where they will rest firmly on the ground the rocking of the graindrill is prevented and the operator is able to guide and handle it much more conveniently and with less exertion, and the danger of injury tothe growing corn is largelyobviated.

Having thus fully described mysaid invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The combination with a grain drill of that type having a frame formed narrow at Patented June 10,1913.

its front and wide at its rear with said front supported on a single wheel and the .drill mechanism mounted on said rear, of

steady runners for laterally supporting the rear end of said drill mounted on each side of said frame, each. of said runners consist ing of a bar attached to the front end of said frame and extending at an angle outwardly and downwardly from said front end to-' ward the 'groundand' having a horizontal foot or hearing portion adapted to rest upon fenders also attached to said runners in p0- In Witness whereof, I have hereunto setsition. to deflect the stalks of corn from the my hand and seal at'St. Paul, Indiana this disksof the drilh'subst antially as set forth. 11th day of November, A. D. nineteen 3. A grain drill comprising runners adhundred and eleven. justzrbly attached to its sides, fenders at MERRITT COPELAND. [Ls] tached to said runners, and shields extend- Witnesses: mg from said runners upward toward the GEORGE L. Hess, frume,substant1a1ly as setfort-h. O'r1s O. THOMPSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for, five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Pstents,

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